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" I try to keep away from being big-headed. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink for the rest of their lives. "

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" My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first disappointment to tell me. "

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" A script like 'The Sixth Sense' is fun to read: It's so well-written, and you get a vivid sense of what's going to be onscreen. "

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" My parents are from the South - they were both born in Birmingham - so my dad saw R.E.M. really early on when they were playing college stuff in Athens. He had a bunch of their cassettes from the '80s, and when I was 8, 9, or 10, those were the sort of things that were around the cassette player in the living room. "

" One challenge in this industry is that you adopt a certain look for a movie, and then people don't get to see the movie for a year! "

" I've done some really off-the-wall stuff and stuff that people might not expect. That's one way to work through people's expectations of you. "

" Comedy can be harder because if you aren't making the audience laugh, they're going to turn on you quicker. They'll go along with mediocre drama more than they'll go along with mediocre comedy. "

" There's so much to learn about acting and performance in general... I mean, acting is a very complex art, and there are a lot more theories and methods and techniques to it than I think anybody would think. "

" I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I'm either sleeping or at the theater. "

" When I was five, I went on my first audition. It was for a Pizza Hut commercial. "

" It's hard to act terrified when you have 200 crew members around you. "

" What attracted me to New York was there was an anonymity that I couldn't always have in Los Angeles, and it was easier to blend in there. The more successful you are, the less you are able to do that. "

" I think a lot of actors will tell you that playing a villain can be more fun than playing the straight and narrow good guy. "

" When I was a little kid, I loved imagining things. I'd go outside and put on a cape and just imagine I was somebody else. "

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" It was kind of good that I wasn't doing the Hollywood high life and stuff like that when I was 18, 19, 20, 21. "

" I went to the Experimental Theater Wing at NYU and wrote and directed a small amount of stuff there. "

" Kobe Bryant is my favorite basketball player. He takes risks. He goes for the shot. He isn't cautious with whatever he does. "

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" I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either. "

" You always have to avoid working for the sake of putting yourself out there. "

" People love to get scared. People want to see the worst thing that can happen. "

" I've never had a MySpace or a Facebook page. I avoid that entirely. "

" That professionalism comes from what I've watched people do on the set. I'm just trying to be as respectful to the environment, as they have been. I think I still act like a kid. I just try to be as professional as I can. "

" The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character. "

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" For me, choice is the most important thing because I'm going to be an adult actor pretty soon. So I've got to be choosing the right roles now so that by the time I get to that age there will be wide options available. "

" I'm not a stand-up comedian. I'm not an improv person or anything, but I've always been a fan of that stuff. "

" My mom teaches sixth grade and also taught first grade at one point. She's into dressing up and costumes and designing her own curriculum that way. She stayed home for about eight years with me and my sister when we were young before going back to teaching, so we had a lot of time with her. She taught us to read really early. "

" My favorite place is Central Park because you never know what you're going to find there. I also like that when I look out the windows of surrounding hotels, it's seems like I'm looking out over a forest. "

" I really don't care if people know who I am or what's said about me. "

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" Every character I approach, from 'Forrest Gump' all the way up to 'The Spoils Before Dying,' has a different set of requirements and always fascinates me. "